Author Archive for Lonely Conservative

What could possibly go wrong with this deal? The United States and Iran are working on a two-phase deal that clamps down on Tehran’s nuclear program for at least a decade before providing it leeway over the remainder of the…

The Obama administration has filed an appeal and a request for an immediate stay of the ruling last week that put a halt to Obama’s amnesty plans. The argument they employed is interesting: In court papers Monday, Justice Department and…

In a Wall Street Journal op-ed economics professor Thomas MaCurdy lays out the case against a government-mandated minimum wage increase. He likened it to a value added tax where the tax rate increases as family income level declines while the…

Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) told George Stephanopoulos that he believes if we don’t send more tax dollars to his district in Minneapolis that Somali immigrants there will become terrorists. He explained that he is trying to signal to people in…

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has taken quite a bit of heat the past few days for saying he didn’t think President Obama loves America. Not only did he take heat, but so did other Republicans who failed…

When I first saw the headline that Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is considering running for president I thought I read it wrong. Then I thought it had to be a joke. But no, it sounds like he is seriously considering it.…

The terrorist group Al Shabaab has threatened malls in the United States, England and Canada, and in particular the Mall of America in Minnesota. Al Shabaab is the al Qaeda offshoot that took credit for the attack on a Kenya mall that…

This morning just after midnight the temperature in Syracuse dipped to 16 degrees below zero. 9WSYR reports that this was a record for February 21. The old record was -13 in 1950. We could be on track to have the…

I have been asked by a graduate student in Spain to ask you all if you would take a few minutes to help him out with his research into political online activity. Here’s the information: Dear friends, My name is…

The FCC commissioner says that the American public supports his (and President Obama’s) plan for net neutrality. But a new poll by a liberal outfit shows most Americans don’t even know what it is. That’s the subject of my latest…

Happy Saturday! We’re still in a deep freeze here in Upstate NY but later today it’s supposed to warm up into the 20s. It will feel like a heat wave, but then temperatures are supposed to plunge again early next…

Our sneaky government at work. Judicial Watch reported earlier that the Department of Homeland Security was trying to rush through amnesty contracts even after a federal judge ordered a halt to the program. Shortly after Judicial Watch published the following…

Read my latest Watchdog Arena post for the results of a poll finding doctors really don’t like the electronic health record mandate in Obamacare. They say it’s too costly and results in worse care, what a shock. Earlier this month, industry group…

The Obamacare debacle continues. Today it’s the news that the Department of Health and Human Services screwed up the tax forms for 800,000 Obamacare enrollees. About 800,000 people received tax forms from the IRS with incorrect information about their Obamacare…